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To: Kid Rock who wrote (30605)	2/10/1999 4:03:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"Does black indigent really make a difference vs. white indigent or hispanic indigent?" Statistically speaking, I'd bet predominantly black juries acquit white defendants at a higher rate than they do black ones, and the same holds true for predominantly white juries. Yet I don't believe white defendants who appear in court are proportionately innocent more often than blacks. America has a baseline of discrimination that taints our justice system, and I'd rather be a white trailer trash indigent defendant than a black or hispanic one any day. How about you? If you had a choice, what color skin would you pick to wear to court?

To: Kid Rock who wrote (30605)	2/10/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

<Does black indigent really make a difference vs. white indigent or hispanic indigent? I am of the opinion that white trailer trash is probably getting as much justice as a bro from the hood.> There is something to that. The HUGE difference among perpetrators is economic/educational. Race of defendant still does matter-- but what matters a LOT is race of the victim. Listen, Feelings dudes: if you want to kill someone and get away with it in our system, definitely choose for your victim a black male, is my advice, based on the stats. Oh, yes, and this advice is best for college graduates. When I was reading about the death penalty in the late 80's, I remember that in Delaware, an executing state, there had never been a single case of an educated, middle class defendant being executed; nor was there a single case of a white man being executed for the murder of a black. I dare say that has changed, these days; but it's not so very disparate from what happens now, is it? Just less subtle.